Workers Brooks and Doxey, West Gorton Works, Manchester (1900)

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

A cheerful, largely female crowd makes their way home from work.

Exuberant scenes of engineers and machinists at the famous Cornwall works near Birmingham.

A volunteer cavalry regiment is enthusiastically welcomed home after active service in South Africa.

Windows of opportunity: how a charity aimed to improve the lives of blind and partially sighted people.

A brisk look at the tests and education practices for deaf people in 1940s

Faith in the inner city - the mission of the Sharon Full Gospel Church in Manchester.

Earning and learning, as an apprentice begins his working life.

Manchester is 'Tickled Pink' with this annual celebration of LGBT life.

Actor and writer Joanna Scanlan talks to Mia Bays, director of the BFI's Filmmaking Fund, about her career in film and television.

Horace Ové's striking portrait of the American writer James Baldwin at his sharp-witted best addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London.

An emotional stand-off takes flight, as teen best friends Ronit and Brennan come to terms with navigating that fuzzy feeling in their stomachs, all whilst learning to skateboard.

While visiting the adoptive family of her eight-year-old biological son, Tara relays advice she gathered from growing up as a queer outcast.

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.

Banished in a dilapidated village hut during her menstruation, a young girl waits to elope with her lover.